About My Artwork

My paintings, drawings and prints are a delicate balance between being concept and process led. I delight in the joys of spontaneous colour, texture and mark making combinations, yet the fine line between freedom to experiment whilst creating controlled compositions is at the heart of my artwork. 

I’m driven by curiosity and a visceral passion for natural forms, geometric shapes, landscape and the built environment. The tension between abstract and figurative imagery, repeat patterns, juxtaposition between translucent and opaque colours are recurring themes. My ideas are as wide and varied as my life experiences, and my creative practice seldom follows a linear trajectory. I usually work on multiple images at once, and often in series, developing them organically over time.

Inspiration can be as fleeting as a line from a book, glimpsed dew on a cobweb, a piece of music, or as specific as a seedhead, leaf or pebble. 

I studied BA and MA Fine Art (Printmaking), and the discipline of the Printmaking processes taught me so much about understanding and working with colour, texture and Fine Art paper.

It was at Central St Martin’s that I discovered Sylvie Turner’s seminal books, including The Book of Fine Paper, which sparked my love of paper texture and quality, as pivotal to me as all my choice of art materials. 

My work has been described as deceptively simple, and I’m happy with that. It reflects an understanding of how much research and development goes on behind the scenes when creating a personal visual language. Every colour, texture, quality of line, brush mark or weight, spatial and scale relationship is considered. Factor in a lifetime of sketchbook drawing and experimenting with materials and it’s no wonder there’s no easy answer to “How long does it take you to make an artwork?”